Welcome to the first edition of Business Sense, our monthly guide to new technology and thinking for small to medium-sized businesses.

These pages, to be published on the last Thursday of each month, and growing from the successful five-year run of Business Solutions, serve a dual purpose.

As you'd expect for a section published alongside the new-look technology section, we're interested in the latest wired - and wireless - ideas for making your business life more productive and rewarding.

In that vein, we hope our lead technology feature this month - on satellite navigation systems - might save you a lost hour or two in the car, or more, depending on your passenger's savvy with a map. The price tags on these once-exotic pieces of kit have fallen dramatically in recent years, and although you can still blow more than £1,000 on a high-end setup, you can now get something that gets you from A to B for less than £200.

But this section is not just about drooling over the latest technology kit. We recognise that new technology is only ever going to be productive for you if it's accompanied by an awareness of the broader world of business. So we'll also bring you the latest thinking in SME management, along with practical advice for the more prosaic areas of business life - like finances and marketing. Don't miss Sue Norris's story, inside this month, on some disastrous marketing campaigns that have not only destroyed value, but come close to actually bringing businesses down.

Our lead story this month - all about Getting Things Done guru David Allen - is the perfect example of how technology and new thinking can combine to create something that's changing the way many business people work. Indeed, some of Allen's disciples would claim his thinking actually changes their lives, so strong is its influence through everything they do.

I'm not going to promise reading our cover story will change your life, but it might help make it a little better organised.